Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

rtl.de

RTL.de: Nachrichten, die bewegen.

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

77 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

rtl.de screenshot

About Website

Welcome to rtl.de homepage info - get ready to check RTL best content for Germany right away, or after learning these important things about rtl.de

Nachrichten, TV-Highlights, Star-News sowie Lifestyle- und Ratgeber-Informationen. RTL.de: Geschichten, die Deutschland bewegen.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rtl.de page load time and found that the first response time was 77 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rtl.de performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,920 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.rtl.de

77 ms

d0cf84dd7a8dc4a4.css

47 ms

be99e87e9a395013.css

47 ms

1219a1899737dcc3.css

45 ms

c223c3ce18cb2d80.css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 227 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (214 requests) were addressed to the original Rtl.de, 6% (13 requests) were made to Wetter.de. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (754 ms) relates to the external source Wetter.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.2 MB (86%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

507.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Rtl.de main page is 3.7 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 3.2 MB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.7 MB
  • After compression 485.8 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 3.2 MB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 772 B

  • Original 22.3 kB
  • After minification 21.5 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. RTL images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (13%)

Requests Now

223

After Optimization

195

The browser has sent 223 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RTL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rtl.de accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Best Practices

rtl.de best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rtl.de SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    DE

  • Language Claimed

    DE

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rtl.de can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that German is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Rtl.de main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of RTL. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: